" ... Lear-like in their storm-thrawn attitudes. "

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from California Coast Trails

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A keen admiration for trees never leaves Chase less than excited, observant,

and astute in relaying his experience. Few writers have evoked the appearance 

and sense of life, and personality of a tree as does Chase. His first book,
' Cone Bearing Trees of California, ' partially attests to that.

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" Noon found us at Point Lobos. It is a superb headland overgrown with pines
and cypresses that lean in perilous balance over the crashing sea, or stand
statuesquely on rocky ledges, ideally pictorial. The cypresses are monarchical
fellows, wonderful in size and evident in age, and Lear-like in their storm-thrawn
attitudes. Like the pines they are strict natives of this locality, and give a unique
charm to this delightful coast. By their manner of growth they remind me of the
monumental yews of English churchyards; and indeed there is much of the same
solemnity in their gnarled stems, far-reaching, bony arms, and rich but gloomy
foilage. "

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at Point Lobos, photo by j. develyn

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In the photo below a ' yew in an English Churchyard. '

While Chase adopted California as his homeland, memories of England
remained fixed in his " quiet chamber in the mind. "

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